Shocking device.



A. B. NICHOLS.

SHOCKING DEVICEI APPLICATION FILED NOV-13.1914.

Patented Mar. 7,1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAIPH .co., WASHINGTON, D. c.

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ATI-IEBTON B. NICHOLS, 01? HASTINGS, MINNE SOTA.

SHOCKING DEVICE.

Application filed November 13, 1914. Serial No. 871,915.

To all LU/109% it may concern Be it known that I, ATHERTON B. Nronons, acitizen of the United States, resident of Hastings, county of Dakota, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shocking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to. corn shocking appliances and the'object of the invention is to provide a device that is easily portable from place to placein the field, can be easily and quickly set up in the shocking position, and as readily removed when the shock is completed.

The invention consists generally in a shocking device having a leg adapted to rest upon the ground and provided with means for gripping or clamping the core of the shock to hold it in an upright position while the bundles are being placed around it. I 7

Further the invention consists in a device havin means for clam in and s ueezin' the bundles composing the shock together preparatory to binding them.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view illustrating the shocking device in use, Fig} 2 is a detail view of one end of the device, showing the clamping means, Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, showing the flexible means for clasping the core of the shock, Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of a modified construction. 7

In the drawing, 2 represents the leg of the shocking device, preferably of wood, corresponding substantially in length and size to a pitch fork handle and having a lower tapered end to rest upon the ground. At the upper end of the leg is a metallic cap 3 fitting over the end of the leg and provided with a shank 4: extending outwardly at such an angle to the cap that when the device is set up for use the shank will be substantially horizontal. The outer end of the shank has an ofiset therein forming areeess 5 in which a latch 6 is slidable between the bottom of said recess and a guide 7, and a tripping cord 8 is attached to said latch and extends down to a point on the leg within convenient reach outside the shock. A sheave 9 is mounted in the wall of the shank and a cord '10 passes around said sheave and has a loop 11 at its free end that is adapted to enter a transverse slot Specification of Letters Patent.

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12 formed in the shank 4 in the path of the latch 6, so that when the loop is inserted into the slot and engaged with the latch, the cord 10. will be temporarily secured and when passed around a bundle may grip it firmly. Any suitable means may be provided for'taking up the slack in the clampingcord, but I prefer to provide a windlass device 13 mounted on the leg 2 and having an operating crank 14: by means of which the windlass can be wound up and the desired tension on the cord. This Windlass is preferably provided with the well known winding spring by means. of which the cord is normally kept in its wound position on the drum. I have not thought it necessary to illustrate the details of this drum, as I make no claim broadly to its constructionf To use the device, I preferably stand two bundles on end, with their butts a suitable distance apart to form two of the legs of i the tripod, while the shocking leg forms the third one. The shank is held against the upper portion of the bundles, as they lean against one another, and the free end ofthe clamping cord is passed around the bundles and its loop inserted into the slot 12 and engaged with the locking latch. The

Windlass or other take-up device is then operated to draw the cord firmly-around the two bundles'and clamp them in their upright position. These bundles now form the core of the shock, which is completed by stacking bundles around the core in the usual way. When the desired number.of

bundles is placed around the core, the clamping cord is released by withdrawing the latch 6 and the shank withdrawn from the shock with the clamping cord, and then the cord may be placed around the entire shock and the Windlass device operated to draw the tops of the bundles snugly around the cord and hold them while the shock is tied by binding twine or other suitable means.

The shocking device thereby serves two functions,it forms a leg for supporting the core of the shock whilethe bundles are stacked around it, and clamps the tops of the core bundles securely and when removed from the core, is utilized as a means for drawing the tops of all the bundles composing the shock into a compact form and holding them while they are bound together.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a modified constructiomwhich consists in providing two legs 15, pivoted together, and having jaws 16 in the form of tongs for gripping the sides of the bundles and holding them securely when the legs are thrust into the ground. Vhen these legs are lifted out of the ground, the jaws may be swung ,apart to allow them to be pulled out of the shock.

I do not wish to be confined in this application to the latch or locking means for fastening the end of the cord to the upper portion of the leg or to the means for tak ing up the slack in the cord, as in various ways these features of the device may be modified and .still be within the scope of my invention. 7

I claim as my invention:

1. A shocking device comprising a leg to rest in an inclined position with one end on the ground, its other end having an obtuse angled extension to rest transversely against the bundles which are to form the core of the shock, flexible means carried by said extension between which and said extension the core may be clamped, a latch mounted on said extension for holding one end of said flexible means, means carried by said leg for drawing said flexible means taut around the core, and means for releasing the latch when the core has been surrounded by bundles to complete the shock.

2. A shocking device comprising a leg to rest in an inclined position with one end on the ground, its other end having an obtuse angled'extension to rest transversely against the bundles which are to form the core of the shock, means between which and said extension the core may be cla1nped,

said means being removable with said extension after the core has been surrounded by bundles to complete the shock.

3. A shocking device comprising a leg to rest in an inclined position with one end on the ground, its other end having an ext-ension to rest transversely against the bundles ATHERTON B. NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

GENEVIEVE E. SoRENsEN, EDWARD A. PAUL.

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